no, I maul and master my body, in case, after preaching to other people, I am disqualified myself.
If you live by the flesh, you are on the road to death; but if by the Spirit you put the actions of the body to death, you will live.
Every athlete practises self-restraint all round; but while they do it to win a fading wreath, we do it for an unfading.
So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),
Beloved, as sojourners and exiles I appeal to you to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war upon the soul.
Therefore if food is any hindrance to my brother's welfare, sooner than injure him I will never eat flesh as long as I live, never!
What profit will it be for a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?
So shun the lusts of youth and aim at integrity, faith, love and peace, in the company of those who invoke the Lord out of a pure heart.
through labour and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, starving many a time, cold and ill-clad, and all the rest of it.
they have gone wrong by leaving the straight road, by following the road of Balaam son of Bosor, who liked the profits of evil-doing —
to fill the place in this apostolic ministry which Judas left in order to go to his own place."
still, as this widow is bothering me, I will see justice done to her — not to have her for ever coming and pestering me.'